Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!texsun!exodus!newstop!jaytee!hinode!geoff From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: nfsping Keywords: nfsping, pc-nfs Message-ID: <2919@jaytee.East.Sun.COM> Date: 14 Oct 90 23:18:33 GMT References: <8781@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: news@jaytee.East.Sun.COM Reply-To: geoff@east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Distribution: usa Organization: Sun Microsystems PC-NFS Engineering Lines: 17 Quoth sjc@hao.ucar.edu (Steve Cariglia) (in <8781@ncar.ucar.edu>): #What rpc daemon's does a server require in order to answer an nfsping #successfully? My pc is running version 3.0.1 pc-nfs and the server I am trying #to nfsping is running sunos 4.0.3 (the machine is a sun4). NFSPING issues a null RPC call to the mount daemon on the target system. Therefore you should get a reply if the system is an NFS server. (Most systems only start the mount daemon if /etc/exports is present.) NFSPING is actually a wrapper for "rpcinfo -u " Geoff -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- *** "Now is no time to speculate or hypothecate, but rather a time *** *** for action, or at least not a time to rule it out, though not *** *** necessarily a time to rule it in, either." - George Bush ***